Garment press



April 12, 1932.

G. PAESLER GARMENT PRESS Filed Feb'. 7, 1931 fave/z for;

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Patented Apr. 12, 1932 PATENT ori-ICE GOTTFRIEDIPAESLER, F DANZIG, FREE, CITY' OF-VILANZIGTy i GARMENT PRESS Applicationled. February?, 1931, Serial No.

This invention relates to aV press for pressing clothes and garments and the like and has for its object, to remove the used working steam after the pressing operation and toy accelerate the drying of the clothes without the necessity of long pipe lines for conducting the used, steam from the machine and of .separate heating elements for producing hot air 'required for accelerating the drying process.

As is known, the mechanical pressing is effected by steaming and at the same time vpressing the clothes. It has beenfound necessary, after the pressing operation,to dry by an air current the clothes treated with the steam, in order to preserve the'shape rand the character ofthe clothes. This drying'was hitherto mostly effective with air'at ordinary room temperature with theuse of'fans, steam ejectors and'other equipments producing suction air. All these devices require a set of pipes for discharging thesteam sucked off, -which pipes must be carefully and accurately constructed, especially in Vthe case ofv frequently used'steam ejectors, in order not to reduce the suction effect. Later it was proposed to heat theV air required for drying, in order to improve and accelerate the drying.

For this purposeseparate heating devices were provided, heated forV example by steam or electric resistances. In all the known machines the press cheeks must be opened for drying the clothes, means being provided by which the heated air in the yform of compressed air ismadeto flow through one-ofthe two press cheeks and the garment resting thereon, thereby drying same, and flows out into the worlr room. `workroom` will become saturated'wit'h moisture and, as experience has shown,thefur niture and the already pressed clothes hanging inthe room will become damaged.

The invention has for its object firstly to removethe steam saturated used'dryifng air, without conductingA it through apipe line or without allowing it to pass off into the workroom increasing damage, and secondly to improve the drying operation as' regards economy, duration and effect.

For this purpose hot air, lan ample quantity of vwhich forms on the heat radiating Thus the air in the is thus actuated, sucks and dries the garment 514,206, and in Germany November 5,1928.

press cheeks, is, according tio the invention, stored in one of the press cheeks,forced'back through the steamed clothes by means `of a suction device or, according to another form of construction, by compressed air, whilstthe press cheeks are still closed. The suction device is preferably constructed as acondensation arrangement, which separates and precipitates the steam particles out of the drying A air. Two embodiments ofthe invention'are illustrated by way of example in the accompanying drawings in which: Y i

Fig. l shows diagrammatically one form of construction in side elevation and' Fig. 2 is a similar view of the second form of construction.

Fig. 3 shows across section through the lower press cheek. v 5

Fig. 4 is a plan: view of a` portionxofthe press cheek. i

The steam. supply conduits have been omitted, as theseare well known.

One of the two press cheeks o or d, preferably the upper'press cheek c of themach-ine, 1s covered with a hood' b, which collects and storesthe hot air forming above the Ypress cheeks. This hot air is utilized, according to the invention, for drying-V the cloth in that it is forcedy back through 'the clothes-after -80 they have been steamed into the lowerpress cheek the press cheeks remainingxclosed. This forcing back of the collectedhot airmay `be effected by lsucking from the lower press cheek or by compressed air supplied into: the heat chamber b.

In the form of construction illustrated-:in Fig. l, a water pump h driven by an electric motor m sucks water from a tanlr through a pipe z' and forces it through a pipe 90 g into a hydraulic air pump yf. This latter the'steam. from-the garment between the lower and'upper press cheeks l and@ respectively through a connecting pipe e and the lower press kcheek by the hot air which follows and is formed above the upper press cheek c and stored above same the-hood b closed by a valve a. This valve--a-mary be a suctiony valve or al cock.. The pump m isV always started up, when the steaming of the garment has been terminated. rIhe suction valve a then opens under the suction eifect or in the case of a cock this cock is opened in order toenable the hot air to be drawn off from the hood and fresh air to pass in. The discharge of the hot air from the chamber b is effected through passages and ports, which are independent of the steam chambers of the press cheek c. The drying air passes from the garment through holes u in the top surface of the press cheek cl into the space in this press cheek (l. The hydraulic air pump f conveys the used operating water together with the steam sucked olf and precipitated by the water jet of the hydraulic air pump and also the sucked off drying air, through a pipe n into the tank 7c. The air carried ofi' escapes from this tank la into the room through an Y aperture in its cover, whereas the water can again be circulated. In order to utilize the slight heating of the operatingrwater, the tank 7^. has a acket ,7' illed with cooling water. This cooling water, when it has become suiiiciently hot, can be employed as required for feeding to the steam developing arrangement.

The collection of the hot drying air can evidently also be eected by means of a jacket on the lower press cheek and on other parts of the machine or pipe line heated by the steam conduit. However the upper press cheek is preferable, in order to provide, by means of the hood b, at the same time a protection against the objectionable radiation of heat from this press cheek.

In the form of construction of the machine illustrated in Fig. 2, the hot air stored above the upper press cheek c is forced back into the garment by compressed air. The compressed air is produced by means of a pump 0 driven by an electric motor, or as shown in the drawings, wherein this pump is actuated by the opening and closing of the upper press cheek o, the lever p of which is connected to the piston of the pressure pump 0 by means of a link q. The compressed air is collected in a tank r, communicating with the air pump 0 through a pipe and a check valve s. A pipe line t leads from the tank r to the hot air chamber 6 of the upper press cheek, where the compressed air is allowed to enter into the hot air chamber o through a cock u, after the steaming of the garment. The compressed air forces the hot drying air between the steam chambers of the upper press cheek into the garment. The used drying air may be sucked out of the garment by the lower press cheek in a well-known manner. The compressed air pump 0 acts at the saine time as a buifer, when raising the upper press cheek so that it is not necessary to provide special buffers.

claim 1. In a garment press, a lower press cheek,

an upper press cheek adapted to move towards and away from said lower press cheek, a hood on said upper press cheek adapted to collect the hot air radiated by said press cheeks, and means for forcing the hot air stored in said hood through the garment after, steaming and whilst said cheeks are in closed position.

2. In a garment press, a lower press cheek, an upper press cheek movable towards and away from said lower press cheek, a hood on said upper press cheek adapted to collect the heat radiated by said press cheeks, and a suotion device connected to said lower press cheek adapted to suck the hot air stored in said hood of said upper press cheek through the garment whilst said cheeks are in closed position.

3. In a garment press, a lower press cheek,

an upper press cheek movable towards and away from said lower press cheek, a hood on said upper press cheek adapted to collect the hot air radiated by said press cheeks, a hy draulic air pump connected to said lower press cheek adapted to suck the hot air from said hood of said upper press cheek, a pipe connecting said lower press cheek to said hydraulic air pump, and means for driving said pump. v

4. In a garment press, a lower press cheek, an upper press cheek movable towards and away from said lower press cheek, a hood on said upper press cheek adapted to collect the hot air radiated by said press cheeks, a hydraulic air pump connected to said lower press cheek, a water pump connected to said hydraulic air pump, a drive for said water pump, a water tank, a pipe connecting said tank to said water pump, a return conduit pipe from said hydraulic air pump to said' tank adapted to effect a circulation of the water from said tank to said hydraulic air pump and back to said tank, said hydraulic air pump at the same time sucking the hot air collected in said hood of said upper press cheek through the garment into said water tank, the steam being precipitated as water of condensation.

5. In a garment press, a lower press cheek,

an upper press cheek movable towards and away from said upper press cheek, a hood on said upper press cheek adapted to collect the hot air radiated by said cheeks, an air tank, a pipe conduit from said tank to said hood of said upper press cheek, and a cock in saidr pipe conduit adapted to admit compressed air into said hood, said compressed air forcing the hot air stored in said hoodthrough the garment, whilst said cheeks are 1n closed position. v

6. In a garment press, a lower press cheek, an upper press cheek movable towards and away from said lower press cheek, a hood on said upper press cheek adapted to collect the hot air radiated by said cheeks, an air pump, a piston in said air pump, a piston rod of said piston, a lever on said upper press f cheek connected to said piston rod, a tank connected to said air pump, a cheek Valve between said air pump and said tank, a pipe conduit from said tank to said hood of said upper press cheek, a cook in said pipe oonduit adapted to allow compressed air to pass into said hood, said air forcing the hot air stored in said hood through the garment into said lower press cheek, and means for oonveyng from said lower press cheek the hot air pressed through the garment.

In testimony whereof afiX my signature.

GOTTFRIED PAE SLER. 

